storage

I want a place to store all of my wife’s and my photos and videos from the last several years. Currently, everything is on a portable hard drive, but we don’t have a way to access the content on the fly. I’m also worried about data corruption and drive failure. I’m not sure I want NAS because...

Hello, New to the forum any help would be appreciated. I just received my MacBook Pro M1 Max 14' today. I got the 1tb option but now I'm starting to feel like I should have gotten the 2tb option and would appreciate any perspectives. For context I will primarily be using this for two things...

Hi everyone, I am hoping to retire my MP 5,1 next year for more room and space and want to consolidate my multiple drives i have in there over the years. I think around 5-6 tb is what I have of capacity drives currently. Decades of stuff from work, family, old machines etc. I will definitely...

I keep my default Photos library on an External Hard Drive (selected as default in preferences) However, I recently transferred up about 20 gb of photos off my iPhone into that library, but it still took up 20gb of my internal storage too. Tried to locate where the photos may have been backed...

Hi, new to iPhone. My 13 mini 512 GB says that I have over 575 GB available. Does anyone know what is going on? Seems like iOS has a lot of odd issues going on.

Hello - I know there's many storage questions! I'm trying to figure out whether I should get 128GB or 256GB of storage. When making my decision I obviously like to see how much I'm using. On my iPhone 12 mini, it states I have about 49gb free. I'm using 79/80GB of storage. This is after I went...

How do you like the service? I’m considering signing up to free up storage on my phone, have a reliable backup, and share with family. My only hesitation is that it converts HEIF to JPEG. I wish I could preserve the original file type. ?

Hi. I have been debating this for a long time, but I'm not sure what to do. Today i have about 8000 photos in my I photo library. These are pictures taken with the phones I've owned the last years. In my Google Photos library, I have about 80 000 pictures. I've been tempted to import all the...

The Photos app has an optimize storage setting that replaces full-resolution photos and videos with smaller, device-sized versions if your device is low on space. I also store photos and videos in the Files app. I’m curious how the Files app utilizes device storage. Does it automatically...

I’m looking for an online-based media storage solution that will accommodate uncompressed and unconverted files including HEIC and RAW. If anyone has any suggestions, I would love to hear them. Smugmug looked like a great choice, but they convert HEIC files to JPEG.

Hey all. Yesterday, I backed up my iPhone Xs (256 gb) to iTunes in hopes of restoring it with the backup before iOS 15 releases. The backup process went by smoothly, albeit slow, but with no problems. However, after attempting to restore the backup to my device, I was hit with an error that...

Hi, I am a new user on this forum! Thanks for having me here. I have a small yet general question to ask, and would love to hear your opinions. I am planning on saving up money to get the Ipad Air 4 WI-FI (64 GB) version, and I wonder if that's enough? I will use it to watch Netflix, Youtube...

How much storage is available on the M1 MacBook Air (with a clean install) with the 256GB SSD? And could I upgrade it after I bought?

this has been happening on and off for a while now. i would get the message that i had low storage space id go to see whats taking it up and icloud drive would usually be taking up a good portion of it. i cant quite figure out exactly how ive gotten it to go away before but i turned icloud drive...

Folks, Questions: Storage + Backup + Dock/Hub After having searched forums, Reddit, online posts and contacting Apple Support, I come to you for an opinion on hardware and workflow. Hardware: - I recently got a Mac mini (m1) with 8/256. - 2019 MacBook Pro 8/512 passed down to spouse. - 3TB...

I keep emptying the Recently Deleted and there are no photos in the recently deleted but it keeps telling me I have 105 to free up which isn't true. Also my photos is not taking 127 gbs. Any ideas why these are wrong?

So, I worked some files on LumaFusion, and added them on iCloud storage. Those files remain on my iPad as well, without the option like OneDrive to unload them locally. I thought when adding more files would remove some others to make space, just like Photos. This doesn't happens, and I am...

I am new to the Mac OS, with a Mac Mini. With that, I have decided to use iCloud, too. Even more so, since I have it setup and configured on my iPhone and iPad. My question is, from a Mac OS perspective, any issue I should be aware of, or understand? I configured iCloud today on my Mac Mini...

On my Mac, the "Others" section takes up 41.41 Gigabytes! Does anyone have some tips to remove some of these without damaging my Mac? Thanks!

With the latest Mac Mini running M1, has anyone here installed and is using Parallels (Windows 10)? If so, any issues? Also, does your model have 8GB memory or 16GB memory? Currently, I have a Windows desktop. But, looking to move to a Mac Mini, as primary. With that, the idea is to have a...